Outreach June 2009 Report

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  • Yasmin Alam-Faruque and Emily Dimmer were invited by the GUDMAP Team to Edinburgh in June 2009 to talk about GOA to the GUDMAP team. Emily talked with Graeme Grimes who was interested in discussing GO in relation to Wendy Bickmores Nuclear Protein Database, and Jeff Christiansen (EMAGE Gene Expression Database - http://genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/Emage/database/emageIntro.html) - about general things regarding bringing GO into EMAGE.
  • Jennifer Deegan is planning a plant-specific bioinformatics course at the EBI in conjunction with the EBI outreach team. This will involve a large GO component.
  • The web-presence working group (WPWG) have been working with a graphic designer at EBI on a new GO logo. Several designs were developed, but we have decided to postpone any further work until the WPWG have met for a brain-storm during the GOC meeting in September.
  • Linda Hannick presented an hour-long Introduction to GO to the participants in the JCVI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation and Analysis Course, presented March 3-5, April 1-3, and June 10-12, 2009. Another course will be presented September 23-25, 2009.
  • Jennifer Smith at RGD produced and released an introductory video tutorial entitled "Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies #1: What is an Ontology?". It is the first in a planned series about Biomedical Ontologies and is available on both SciVee (http://www.scivee.tv/node/11759) and Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/5344028). The intended target audience is researchers and students who are largely, or completely, unfamiliar with ontologies, and the example that is used to illustrate ontologies, ontology annotations and ontology browsers (including AmiGO) is GO.